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Lion LDAP Authentication Problem

Hi helpers,

we are using an OpenLDAP server to authenticate our users to different desktop machines. Using SL everything worked just perfect. Now, I upgraded to 10.7 and the login of the LDAP users does not work anymore. I can see all users of the LDAP server listed in the directory service. Furthermore, using dscacheutil, I can get the uid and so on from the LDAP server. Just the password authentification does not work. Using "su", I get "su: Sorry" all the time.

Thanks for your help

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 9, 2011 8:35 AM

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Nov 18, 2011 4:27 PM in response to samvais

Thanks Sam! With the modification described in the link you provided, along with the modification found in a reply there (http://www.fh-trier.de/index.php?id=12207), we were able to get our Lion clients authenticating against OpenLDAP.

Here are the authors:

Jeff Strunk: http://itsabicycle.com/2011/10/14/ldap-authentication-simple-binds-os-x-lion-107 2/

Ralf Becker: http://www.fh-trier.de/index.php?id=12207